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Written question asked by Hugh Bayley (Labour) on Monday, 28 January 2008, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Wednesday, 30 January 2008. It was answered by Lord Coaker (Labour) on Monday, 4 February 2008 on behalf of the Home Office.

Crimes of Violence

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how many (a) violent and (b) other crimes were recorded in (i) North Yorkshire and (ii) city of York constituency in each of the last 10 years.
Answer

The available information is given in the table. Violence against the person data for the city of York is only available from 1999-2000 and other crimes data from 2000-01.

Violence against the person and other crimes recorded by the police
Area and year Violence against the person Other crimes Total crimes
North Yorkshire
1997¹ 2,425 47,827 50,252
1998-99 4,827 50,482 55,309
1999-2000 5,101 48,453 53,554
2000-01 4,895 46,637 51,532
2001-02² 5,624 53,501 59,125
2002-03² 8,108 59,131 67,239
2003-04 9,610 61,863 71,473
2004-05 12,045 49,570 61,615
2005-06 11,473 47,377 58,850
2006-07 10,087 44,439 54,526
City of York
1997 ³— ³— ³—
1998-99 ³— ³— ³—
1999-2000 1,650 ³— ³—
2000-01 1,504 17,787 19,291
2001-02² 1,656 21,234 22,890
2002-03² 2,575 23,055 25,630
2003-04 3,459 25,888 29,347
2004-05 4,000 19,080 23,080
2005-06 3,810 18,974 22,784
2006-07 3,285 17,650 20,935
¹ Using the expanded coverage and revised counting rules which came into force on 1 April 1998.
² The National Crime Recording Standard was introduced on 1 April 2002. Figures before and after that date are not directly comparable.
³ Not available.

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
471 c805W; 183420
Session
2007-08
Subjects
Crimes of violence Yorkshire and the Humber
Link
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